In the early morning of the third day of the summer in June, Shi Lang rode out of the city as usual, climbed high and looked at the sea, but saw a round of blood-red morning sun gushing out of the vast sea horizon, plating the clouds in the south into purple red. The waves on the surface of the sea were restlessly noisy and empty, foaming at the white foam and wrapped in seaweed, striking the reef more forcefully each time and pushing towards the sand.

"Wind Weather!" Shi Lang was in a sudden mood, stood on the rock and pondered for a moment, slapped his leg sharply, hurried down, and galloped back to the city. Yao Qisheng and Li Guangdi were playing against each other, and when they saw him come in, they hurriedly changed into court clothes, picked up the sword between the walls and tied it to their waists, the two couldn't help but be shocked, Li Guangdi pushed the table up, and asked, "What's wrong?" Shi Lang was already neatly draped, wearing a hat belt, with no expression on his face, and said slowly: "Lord Li, Brother Qisheng, how many years and how many days have you waited, the emperor has finally opened his eyes, the south wind will rise, and he will cross the sea to fight today!" ”

The thing came too suddenly, Li and Yao were stunned for a while, Yao Qisheng's burning eyes glanced at Shi Lang, his body suddenly shook, his face turned blood-red, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything. Li Guangdi's face turned pale all of a sudden, he took a step forward and asked urgently, "What is this......?" It's true? ”

"Really!" On Shi Lang's weather-beaten face, the wrinkles were motionless, like a stone man, "The south wind must be strong today, and it is a good time to attack Penghu!" When Li Guangdi came to the end, he looked a little uneasy, paced two steps and asked: "I have already bowed and explained the situation here to the Holy Lord, there will be a holy decree in these two days, can you wait a while?" Shi Lang gritted his teeth and said: "Outside, the king's order is not affected, at this moment is the emperor's change of hexagram, and I have to send it when I am ready to fly, what are you waiting for?" Yao Qisheng frowned, pressed his hands on the table, stared at the immovable coconut tree in the courtyard, thought for a while, slammed the case, and said excitedly: "Okay, the times create heroes, for a long time!" Herald the Bill! ”

The cannon in front of the Chinese army's tent sounded three times like thunder. The paging of the "marshal to the account" was sent directly to the battalions, sheds, and sentinels from the Chinese army. The sergeants immediately got busy, dressed in armor, wearing bows and knives, and gathered in groups to the school field.

Shi Lang was in the center, Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng stood on the school platform on the right and left, all three of them were so hot that they were sweaty and sweaty, and they were motionless like nails. Shi Lang wore a new nine-python five-clawed robe, covered with a yellow coat, his eyes were gloomy and cold, and he said loudly: "Please Son of Heaven Sword!" ”

There were three more cannon shots, and the eight lieutenants carried the sword stand in the middle of the platform, lit the incense and candles on the table, and the three of them saluted in turn and retreated to the side.

"Soldiers!" Shi Lang's voice was as loud as a stone.

"In!"

Shi Lang's eyes swept across the soldiers on the school field, and suddenly raised his voice: "The governor of Pontus is ordered by the Holy Order, on behalf of the heavens to rebel, worship the god of the sea today, and go to sea!" As he spoke, he took out a yellow cloth bag from a box on the table, put it on the table, knelt down on one knee in front of the desk, bowed and took out the contents inside. Everyone looked at each other and saw Shi Lang holding a handful of copper coins in his hand. Li Guangdi was a little puzzled in his heart, and secretly thought, "Which spell is this?" ”

"This is Admiral Ben's worship of Tanah Lot last night, and he invited a divine object for divination!" Shi Lang looked solemn, put the copper coins in his hands and said loudly, "One hundred Kangxi copper coins, throw them at the map of Taiwan's sea area, if our army goes smoothly, there should be more than ninety-five literal upwards!" As he spoke, the two sergeants carried a thick sea blue felt and laid the sea map in the center of the platform.

As soon as the words came out, the generals and soldiers on the stage all lost their color: a hundred copper coins, thrown indiscriminately, who can keep more than ninety-five literal face-up? Li Guangdi's face turned pale, and when he looked back at Yao Qisheng, he was also bloodless. It was easy to freeze God, Li Guangdi took a step forward and said: "Heaven and man are a fixed number, General Shi doesn't have to do this!" ”

"Master Li, since it is a fixed number, God will bless it!" Shi Lang said coldly, "If there is really something unfavorable, life and death, Shi Lang is willing to deserve it - please enlighten from God!" "As soon as he raised his hand, the hundred coppers were already scattered all over the felt. Some rolled around, some spun like a top, and only then did they lie down calmly.

The hearts of the soldiers were all raised high, and they approached to see it in trepidation, but they saw a hundred bronze coins scattered all over the felt, scattered and disorderly on the felt, yellow and shining, one, two, three, four, five...... There are actually ninety-nine "Kangxi" literally facing up! After reading it one by one, Chen Python trembled his lips and was stunned for a long time, looked at the sky with his eyes, jumped to his feet and shouted: "It's all words, it's all words!" ”

All of a sudden, there was a sensation on the stage, Li Guangdi took out a handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, his face was red with excitement, Yao Qisheng rubbed his hands together and sighed again and again: "Tianxin is tired of Zheng, Tianxin is tired of Zheng!" "Lan Ming, Lan Li, and the generals are all bleeding all over their bodies, and they want to draw their swords and dance wildly to the sky!

"Nail it with a nail," Shi Lang's voice trembled with excitement, "Carry it out, drum accompaniment, show the three armies!" ”

Several lieutenants hugged the piece of sea blue felt and carried it down. After a while, the tsunami-like sound of "long live" was heard from the soldiers of each battalion. Li Guangdi's mind was smart, and he suddenly changed his mind: Could it be that there are ninety-five copper coins that are specially minted two-sided characters? I couldn't help but smile, but then shouted "Hurrah!" ”

This is indeed the case, when Shi Lang's majesty resigned, Kangxi Ping retired from the minister of the study and left and right, and gave him a hundred copper coins with two-sided characters, telling him to operate like this, only Shi Lang was afraid that some shrewd people would be suspicious, so he exchanged five coins in it, which made everyone believe more solidly. Seeing the success of Kangxi's clever plan and his morale was greatly boosted, Shi Lang was full of spirits, poured a bowl of wine from the prepared wine jar, walked to the center of the general's platform, and shouted: "Military order!" ”

"Wow!"

"There is no advance or retreat!"

"Wow!"

"Those who cower in the face of the enemy, those who delay military aircraft, those who do not obey orders, and those who do not save when they are in danger - behead!"

"Wow!"

Shi Lang glanced at Yao Qisheng and motioned for him to speak. Yao Qisheng stepped forward with a "brush" and shouted loudly: "In the battle of Taiwan, the Lord has worked hard all night, and everyone is looking forward to it. The husband is standing in the world, and he is willing to encourage you all at this time! Speaking of this, Yao Qisheng turned around, made a thousand calls in front of Shi Lang, and said loudly: "Yao Qisheng was originally ordered to supervise the food and salary, and now Lord Li Guangdi is sitting in the rear as a messenger, Qisheng respectfully invites him to go out with the army, but Lord Shi Lang's order is to obey, if there is a mistake, be willing to be a military order!" This simple agitation of his played a great role, because the people were quiet, and the adjutants were heard clearly, and when they saw that he, as the governor, invited the enemy, everyone was so excited that their hearts were pounding. Shi Lang was hesitating, Li Guangdi approached, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother Qisheng is sincere, General Shi will allow it, if there is gossip in the court, Guangdi is willing to deserve it." Don't be rash, don't cower - I set up a couch in Fuzhou to drink wine and sweep flowers to welcome the two of you to return triumphantly! ”

Shi Lang looked up at the sky, it was already Chen Pai time, nodded, waved his hand and said: "Pass my general order, immediately raise the flag and board the ship!" ”

The banner of the Chinese army rose into the air in the majestic military music, at this time the south wind suddenly rose, blowing the royal blue satin flag hunting, and the first line of strong goose yellow characters "Qin Mission, Prince Taibao, Commander of the Naval Division Right Du Shi", fluttering in the south wind to stretch. With the flagship, a column of warships laden with sailors sailed out of the harbor in order. The rough sea is full of ships equipped with cannons, rockets, and birds.

The two brothers, Lan Ming and Lan Li, agreed to fight in a competition, and Lan Li specially asked for an order to take another gunboat next to the Chinese military ship. The people on the Lan Li boat were all stripped down to a pair of shorts. These two ships were at the forefront of the whole army, and they were both so murderous that they were particularly eye-catching. In addition to the Chinese army, 70 warships on each of the other two routes, led by Chen Bang and Wei Ming, attacked Jilongyu and Niuxinwan respectively - another 80 warships were located behind the Chinese army, and if there was an incident, they would rescue all parties and use it as a backup if there was anything to do. The red and blue flags echoed each other from afar on the town platform, constantly changing formations according to Shi Lang's flagship orders, and the horned horns and cannons on the sea surface were endless, startling the seagulls to rise and fall in a hurry.

On the fourth day, the south wind intensified, and the wind urged the battleship to sail like an arrow, like a huge whale on the sea surface to move forward in the waves, splashing the old high splash. Penghu Island is getting closer. The rocky reef rising on the shore is like a monster disappearing in the waves, and it can be seen clearly with the naked eye, but there is no movement at all. After all, Yao Qisheng was born as a literati and was about to meet the enemy, his heart jumped suddenly, holding the gunwald of the ship with both hands, wet and sticky, full of cold sweat. He gasped silently, turned back to Shi Lang and smiled: "Isn't the guard here Liu Guoxuan?" After bringing soldiers for decades, why is it so bad, he should have shelled our ship a long time ago and attacked in chaos! ”

The telescope in Shi Lang's hand has not been put down, and the sea water that pounced on the side of the ship has already been soaked, and after listening to Yao Qisheng's words, he replied without moving: "There is already movement on the island......" Before the words were finished, the cannons on the island had already sounded sky-high, and concentrated fire on the flagship of the Chinese army, and a column of water immediately stirred up around it, pouring down on the ship. At the same time, about a hundred enemy ships sailed out of the harbor to surf. Shi Langfang waved the red flag in his hand, and the front team of twenty-eight cannons and three hundred bird guns roared at the same time. Except for the ten cannons made by Raita, the rest are refined by the Military Manufacturing Bureau, with a long range and fast reloading, but the recoil is large, and the hull of the ship shakes violently with each shot.

Smoke suddenly rose on the island, the flags and broken masts that were blown up on the sea fell down like kites, and the soldiers on the island ran in a panic, but they couldn't hear what they were screaming, and soon they became calm again. Then the platoon of artillery on the island pressed over again. The water mist around the flagship was so thick that it was impossible to see anything clearly a few feet away, and the sea and sky were all in a porridge-like chaos. Shi Lang was busy: "Playing the flag, don't worry about me on the left and right wings, quickly attack Jilongyu and Niuxin Bay, and occupy the beachhead!" He shouted a few times, but the standard-bearer beside him did not move. Shi Lang couldn't help but be furious, drew his sword in his hand, and stepped forward to kill the frightened sailor. When he got to the front, he was stunned, it turned out that the Chinese flag bearer had been killed next to the side of the ship, and he was standing holding the flag tightly, blood and sea water gurgling down.

Shi Lang was moved and anxious again, snatched the order flag with his hand, and said sharply: "Yao Qisheng commands the flagship!" A staggered climb to the inclined flag platform and personally manipulated the flag to give orders to Chen Python and Wei Ming. In an instant, the artillery on the left and right wings shook the sky, and Niuxin Bay and Jilongyu were on fire at the same time.

At this moment, the striker and the enemy ship have been engaged, the cannon is useless, the arrows are like rain locusts, the guns are like bursting beans, the rockets are fired, several sails are burning on both sides, the sound of the mast crackling in the blazing fire, the sound of drums, shouts, howls, the collision of battleships, the sound of white-knives fighting, and the noise of the big waves are mixed together. Seeing that Shi Lang's left and right flanks had occupied the beachhead, the enemy ships obviously panicked, crossed the hull to meet the enemy, and each sent 20 ships to the left and right flanks to save the rear road. But this time, the situation in the middle lane was immediately clear, and Liu Guoxuan was weak, so he had to use rockets to protect it while Ming Jin withdrew his troops and slowly retreated.

Seeing that the enemy's retreat was broken, Shi Lang couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, and ordered the second standard-bearer to beat the flag and order to attack the enemy's beachhead with all his might, and personally beat the drum to lead the Chinese army to chase after him. Just as he was proud, he didn't expect a cold arrow to fly "whoosh", and it went straight through the left eye! Yao Qisheng's face turned pale, and he screamed and pounced, but he couldn't do anything. The guards on both sides were stunned when they saw that the boss was seriously injured and bleeding profusely! Shi Lang staggered a step and shouted viciously: "What are you stunned about? Urgently order the Lan brothers to attack, and the sky is about to change! After saying that, he smiled fiercely, pulled out the arrow with the eyeball, and held it tightly in his hand.

"Brother Shi Lang!" Yao Qisheng burst into tears.

Shi Lang held the iron fence with one hand, the green tendons on his forehead rose high, and it took a long time before he smiled hard: "Qisheng, you are still famous Yao Daring, why bother to be a child!" How can the parents who have received the hair and skin of the body be discarded? The ancient names will have a big battle, am I not as good as them? He shoved his eyeballs into his mouth with a trembling hand and stretched his neck out to swallow...... "Clicked" the arrow in two, threw it into the sea, gritted his teeth and ordered Wu Ying, the chief soldier beside him: "Hit, bastard, understand?" Beat! After saying that, he beat the drums of war again.

Dozens of warships on both sides of the center forward have been slaughtered. Lan Li had already been killed, and he was shot more than ten times in the upper and lower parts of his body, like a blood gourd, looking for the enemy to do white-knives fighting. Lan Ming is smarter than his brother, and from the beginning of Shen to the end of Shen, not a single soldier died on his ship. It turned out that after connecting with the enemy ship, he ordered everyone to lie down in the cabin together, eat beef jerky and drink water. He only ordered the sailors to swing their rudder and drill through the enemy ships, like an eel, and the enemy came up and killed one by one, cut off their ears as proof, and threw their bodies into the sea, and in this way, hundreds of them died silently on his ship. All the ships have become volcanoes in the sea of blood, but it swings around like an empty ship, waiting for flies that do not know whether they are alive or dead.

"Second Master!" A sailor who looked at the wind suddenly said, "Uncle's ship ......"

Lan Ming calmly got up and looked through the hatch, Liu Guoxuan's vanguard general Zeng Sui led three warships to trap Lan Li's ship in the core, the mast collapsed, and the ship was already on fire, so he turned around and ordered: "Don't panic! Get our boat over quietly! ”

At this time, Lan Li's situation was really dangerous, he saw that his ship was sinking, so he took the only dozen or so soldiers to jump onto Zeng Sui's ship, Zeng Sui's ship more than forty people surrounded together, and had already cut down Lan Li's tired guards to the ground. Zeng Sui was eating wine with his sword in one hand and leaning his neck up, seeing that Lan Li was the only one left, he leaned against the cabin to gasp, "snapped" and dropped the wine bottle, smiled and lifted the sword over, and asked:

"Are you Lan Li, born to carry a big job?"

"Yes and what? Are you Zeng Sui, a bandit for a living? Lan Li clenched his sword, carefully guarding against his sudden attack, and said with a smile: "Look left and right, do you still have hope?" ”

"We're confidants." Zeng Suige smiled, "Lao Tzu is over, but you can't survive." You also look left and right, how long can you live? ”

Zeng Sui said, and stabbed Lan Li in the head with his sword, Lan Li hurriedly raised his knife to block, but he pounced in the air - it turned out that Zeng Sui shook a sword and stabbed Lan Li in the abdomen - it was stabbed on Lan Li's bare stomach, Lan Li screamed and lay down on the deck, and his stomach was broken. Zeng Sui smiled and put away his sword, and said to the soldiers on the left and right: "You all shouted in unison: Lan Li is dead!" ”

The pro-soldiers listened to the order, rolled up the horn in their hands, and shouted with full breath: "Lan Li is dead!" Lan Li is dead! ”

"Lan Li is still alive, Zeng Sui is dead!"

Lan Li, who was lying on the ground, suddenly shouted, and a carp jumped up, wielding a heavy broad-backed knife and slashing at Zeng Sui. Rao is Zeng Sui is strong in martial arts, how to prevent this "dead man" from having this moment, when his body flashed, his left arm had been cut off. At this moment, as if by magic, more than forty shirtless men climbed up from the port side and rushed over without a sound, and more than half of the more than twenty guards had already been cut down. Zeng Sui's face was as white as paper, and he covered his broken arm and shouted: "The left and right ships come here, kill quickly!" ”

But the soldiers under his command are already at the end of their strong crossbows, where can they resist this group of fresh troops who have been recuperating and eating and drinking for a long time, but whoever meets them will be killed and fall to the ground like the wind sweeping the leaves. Lan Li was desperate, and couldn't help but cry, collapsed to the ground, and shouted and cheered: "Good brother, with you, you are better than my brother!" It's good to live and kill, so that the emperor knows that my Lan family brothers are not bad seeds! ”

Zeng Sui's forward ship was soon occupied by the two Lan brothers. Lan Ming cut the flag rope with a knife, and the pioneer flag embroidered with the word "Zeng" fell "with a bang". Zeng Sui was forced to retreat to the door of the cabin under the attack of more than a dozen strong hands, and stood against the wall and shouted:

"Stop, I have something to say!"

The besiegers all withdrew their weapons. The battle on all sides had ended, and Liu Guoxuan's flagship had fled to the sea of Niuxin Bay. As soon as the black clouds were pressed down, Zeng Sui did not speak immediately, his tearful eyes looked east for a moment, and sighed softly: "Heaven is dead, I am worthy of the old master Zheng Chenggong!" Zeng Sui suddenly pulled out two small flags from his sleeve, and hurriedly waved the flag to ask Liu Guoxuan to "fire at me"...... In the astonished gaze of everyone, Zeng Sui skimmed his flag, slammed his sword into the neck, and his body fell heavily on the wet deck like a sawn poplar. Almost at the same time, Liu Guoxuan's platoon of artillery roared over, and Lan Ming, who was standing in a daze, had his head cut off in half, and fell down without saying a word.

"Good brother...... Lan Li screamed miserably, rolled and pounced, lying on Lan Ming's warm body, his whole body convulsed, slamming the deck with his head and fists, and crying in a hoarse voice: "Mother hurts you the most, how can I see her old man when I go back......"

Suddenly, a golden snake like gold and fire burst out of the clouds, followed by a thrilling rolling thunder. The heavy rain fell on the ground, hitting the sea surface and "brushing" the mountains...... It's already dark.